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USA Selects
The USA Falcons, formerly known as the USA Selects, is the second national rugby team for the United States, usually used for uncapped matches and domestic club sides. The primary national team is known as the USA Eagles or the United States national rugby union team. The USA Selects participated in the Americas Rugby Championship, a tournament originally featuring the "A" sides for Argentina, Canada, the United States, and Uruguay. The ARC is an annual tournament (except for Rugby World Cup years) that replaced the North America 4 competition. The USA Selects' best results in the ARC were their second place finishes in 2013 and 2014. USA Rugby, October 15, 2013. Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Pittman
Shawn Pittman (born January 22, 1988 in Bellingham, Washington, United States) is an American rugby union coach and former player. Pittman played Prop (rugby union), prop for Old Puget Sound Beach and the United States national rugby union team, United States Eagles. He played in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He is currently the head coach of the Utah Warriors in Major League Rugby (MLR). He also represented his country at under-19 and under-20 levels. His debut for his country was against Uruguay national rugby union team, Uruguay on November 8, 2008. Youth rugby Pittman started playing rugby when he was 18, after being persuaded to take up the sport by some rugby playing friends. He first played representative rugby for the U.S. in 2006. He was selected for the U.S. squad for the Under 19 World Junior Championships in Belfast in 2007. Also in 2007, Pittman undertook the International Rugby Academy of New Zealand's Advanced Course at Massey University in Palmerston North, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cowley (rugby)
Joe Cowley is a columnist writer for the ''Chicago Sun-Times''. Cowley, a graduate of Kent State University, served the same role for the ''Sun-Times'' sister publication, the Tinley Park, Illinois ''Daily Southtown'', for several years before being hired by the downtown paper before the 2006 season. Cowley was one of the regular beat writers covering the White Sox during their 2005 World Series championship. Controversies In May 2004 while traveling with the White Sox on a road trip to Toronto, Cowley made disparaging remarks about the city of Toronto in a radio interview, calling it “nothing but a city in a third-world country." Subsequently during the series in Toronto, Cowley refused to stand for the Canadian national anthem prior to a game. Toronto Blue Jays president Paul Godfrey described Cowley as having “bad manners” and had letters of complaint sent to both Cowley and his publisher over the incident. Cowley gained notoriety nationally when he admitted on Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Blues
The Ontario Blues are the senior men's representative rugby team for Ontario. They were founded in 2009 to compete in the Americas Rugby Championship against other representative teams from Canada, Argentina, and the United States. In their inaugural season, the Blues suffered narrow losses against British Columbia and the Wolf Pack before defeating the Rock to advance to the Canadian Final. The Blues would again lose to BC, but defeated the U.S. Selects in the bronze medal match. In 2010, Rugby Canada changed the format of the Canadian competition of the ARC, introducing the CRC. The four Canadian teams which competed in the ARC stayed the same, but now played in the CRC, with a Canadian Selects team being chosen from CRC players, and that selects team going on to represent Canada at the ARC. The Blues went on to win four straight Canadian Rugby Championships from 2011 to 2014 during a stretch where they were 19 wins and one loss over three seasons. The Blues have since won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge
The 2021 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge will be the fourth tournament of the Americas Pacific Challenge, which is a development competition for the Americas and Pacific island nations. However, due to travel restriction only Americas countries will feature, with Paraguay replacing Samoa A. The competition will be once again hosted by Uruguay with all games played at the 14,000 capacity stadium Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo. Format With six teams in the tournament and a limitation of three matches per team, a "split pool" format will be used. The field was split into two pools, with teams in one pool only playing the teams in the other. The competing teams are: Pool A * * * Pool B * * * Table Final standings for combined pools: Fixtures All times are local UYT ( UTC-03) Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 See also * 2021 end-of-year rugby union internationals * Americas Rugby Championship * World Rugby Pacific Challenge The World Rugby Pacific Challenge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Audsley
Dylan Audsley (born January 15, 1994) is an American rugby union player who plays center and fullback for the San Diego Legion in Major League Rugby (MLR) and the United States men's national team. In 2016, Audsley was the first recipient of the Rudy Scholz Award, given to the best men’s college rugby player in the United States. Early life Audsley was born in the United Kingdom, the son of an American mother. He moved to the United States and attended Notre Dame High School and Chaparral High School, graduating from the latter in 2012. Audsley then attended Saint Mary's College where he led the rugby team to a national championship in 2017. Audsley scored 25 of the Gaels' 30 points in their 30–24 national championship game victory over Life University. While at St. Mary's, Audsley was the first recipient of the Rudy Scholz Award, an award given to the best men’s college rugby player in the United States and named after two-time Olympic gold medalist and World War I an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Matyas
Ryan Matyas (born December 24, 1990) is an American rugby union player who plays as a wing for the San Diego Legion of Major League Rugby (MLR) and for the United States national rugby union team. Career Matyas played college rugby for the Arizona Wildcats. Matyas played with the United States national rugby sevens team under head coach Matt Hawkins. He earned a full-time contract for the 2013–14 season, playing in six tournaments in the 2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series. After the season, the U.S. brought in a new head coach, Mike Friday, and Matyas's contract with the U.S. sevens team was not renewed for the 2014–15 season. Matyas debuted for the U.S. national rugby fifteens team on February 20, 2016, at the 2016 Americas Rugby Championship, coming on as a substitute against Chile. Matyas scored his first try for the U.S. on February 18, 2017 against Canada at the 2017 Americas Rugby Championship. Matyas played for the U.S. during the summer 2017 matches against Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |